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With more than 8,000 members, the Greater Cleveland Partnership is one of the largest metropolitan chambers of commerce in the country. Learn about our work to advance economic development and improve the business climate in our city, region and state.

Photo right: Vince Adamus, GCP’s vice president, real estate and business development with Ohio Economic Development Asssociation President Ellen Heinz accepted the ODEA excellence in economic development marketing award on behalf of GCP and its Northeast Ohio economic development partners.

The Greater Cleveland Partnership's Business Development Team continued its award-winning business retention and expansion activities and ended 2013 with strong results. The team called on more than 340 businesses in the region this year to help them grow and thrive by connecting them to resources related to workforce, real estate, financing, development, state and local tax credits and incentives.

Together with GCP’s public and private partner organizations, the team successfully closed 17 business retention and expansion projects in Greater Cleveland (see below), which resulted in 1,616 jobs created, 2,015 jobs retained, and over $173 million in capital investment. Projects include:

Art of Beauty

ByteGrid

City of Brooklyn

Cincinnati Restaurant Group, Inc.

Constant Aviation

Dwellworks

Equity Trust

Freeway Corporation

Flats East Development LLC

Glazer's Distributors of Ohio, Inc.

HDI Landing Gear

Merit Brass

Nestle USA, Inc.

Osborn Engineering

SP Data

Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. aka TTI

Vitamix

The Business Development Team also developed a pipeline of an additional 37 projects with $252 million in capital investment for 2014.

In addition, GCP and its Northeast Ohio regional economic development partners, the Greater Akron Chamber, Stark Development Board, Team Lorain County, and the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber received top honors for excellence in economic development marketing from the Ohio Economic Development Association. The group was honored for "COLLABOR18," a strategic marketing communication booklet representing local economic development organizations in 18 counties of Northeast Ohio for advancement of business retention and expansion efforts.

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The Greater Cleveland Partnership mobilizes private-sector leadership, expertise and resources to create attractive business conditions that create jobs, grow investment and improve the economic prosperity of the region.